Walk By Faith Not By Sight???
- mdawson17posted 15 years ago
0I honestly always try to walk by faith and not by sight, although it can be complicated. I believe the plaque gives to many food for thought, especially when they don't know which direction to turn and if they believe in God , they will definitely understand what is written.
I like this quote .
"Fool make money some people shout,
Poetry you will die broke without a doubt.
I must write I keep telling them,
I have been given the sign to use the pen."
Took me five years ,full time to put my book together and I trusted god or had faith.Got attitude form many when I was writing. I am no English professor,was a Navigating officer in the Merchant Navy and when I was given the signs to become a poet I was very confused initially.
Today things have fallen in place which I knew they would but I needed faith to get where I am.
It has potential as a way of saving energy. Especially if we can extend it to driving. Let's try - no headlights, no street lights. Do you think it's going to work?
Take it any way you like. I know my capabilities. You apparently don't know yours if you are hanging on to the notion that you can move Mount Fuji to Australia. Come on - I gave you a whole month
With enough people of faith you could move a mountain one rock at a time.
Might take longer then six weeks though. 
I am sure "one rock at a time" is possible to build huge structures like Pyramids but moving a mountain (especially since I have been to Himalayas) seems a little too much to expect from faith
Ummm, frankly never seen such a move. Ever. How many people do you need you think?
Just one
Jewels is right... somehow people must think that faith is some sort of magic act. Though I would consider it magic if someone said, "hey let's see if we can move mt. Fuji"
Most would say, you gotta be kidding me, you cannot move a mountain yet faith would have it that, if you believe that they will come and help you move the mountain but it wont be easy...
...yeah I am up for it if you are! Now I could move a mountain on my own but without help from others I probably wont accomplish it in my life time.
It's called hard work but faith goes on... when one believed I can move a mountain and worked their whole life to accomplish it, another would see it and regard it as something unexplainable.. Why would a person live their whole life to move a mountain... and so another picks up where I had left off until the mountain is moved.
After my time, and many others times have past, and the mountain is moved by the will of people to prove that you can move a mountain by faith...
Many of the unbelievers will still say, no they moved it with their own hands and stupid labor because their God is a slave driver and wants people to suffer...
We say nay, we moved it to prove that in God all things are possible, but without God you labor for nothing but yourself.
Which is fine, you know, labor for yourself but even you Misha, I don't see that you do anything for only yourself. How silly I must sound to believe that labors for God bring wealth, which is to make the impossible, possible...
and then in time they would say... remember the story about the girl who moved a mountain by faith?
Jewels- You do have a nice way of putting it. You know when we were kids my mom would give us some home made naturopathy medicines and reinforce that it would help us in feeling better and so on. She would insist on us to have faith and then surprisingly we would be feeling better. I guess what I am saying is that faith is a good thing as long as it is positive or realistic (again these are relative based on each person). Once we had a teacher who told us that she once corrected an exam paper and where the student wrote that "Believe me teacher I studied this but I am not remembering now. God Promise". Well the teacher wrote back to the student "next time when you take God promise make sure you ask God to remind you the answers while writing the exam"
She would make some concoction which would be so bitter to consume for us. We would try to avoid taking it by saying it is not going to do us any good and that's when she would say that faith is as important as the medicine for the cure. I guess some amount of psychology(faith) helps even our physiology (body) to accept and benefit from it.
The second one was meant for some students who would not prepare well in advance and go to temples/mosques/churches before/after exams to get positive results.
My Goddess, I would say you lost me.
Well, in truth I think you are lost yourself, yet to be polite I am saying you lost me
You can't show me a documented example of any such thing. And you know it, if the Bible says Moses made a corridor in the Red Sea, it is not a documented example for me
All what you typed above is a pure speculation based of your belief, which cannot be neither observed, nor replicated. Sorry, it does not work this way for those who don't believe in the same thing you do- sandra rinckposted 15 years ago0
Blind faith suggest that you are not absolutely certain of the outcome but you will do as you need to do however big or small, believing it will turn out in your favor.
Faith without works is dead. If Redhawk had not done whatever he had to do, he probably would have not gotten his children.
Blind faith isn't a scientific formula where you can calculate all the probabilities to achieve the outcome you desire because then all it is is "slave masters" lol "knowing" (not faith) that if they whip the slaves enough they will do what they are told.
The slaves themselves have "faith" that if they just do it they "might" have a chance to live. Because history would also have it that people who are slave drives like such, are also likely to kill you anyways.
Blind faith could also be that a person really doesn't know what to do in a given situation but knows they gotta do something and have faith that whatever it is they do, it will be the right choice.
Because we really don't always know the outcome, life deals us situations that we have never been in before. You can learn as many things as you need to but whose to say that you will ever need it? Likewise, life always seems to give you something you did not anticipate and from there you just have to do something.
It's not so hard to figure out. Whether it is faith in God or faith in yourself... it is still faith. I believe faith removes doubt. We have oodles of doubt about all sorts of things we cannot see. Removing doubt moves those contradictions and obstacles out of the way too.
True leaders can’t get themselves, yet alone others, motivated enough to help realize their visions and goals with even a tiny bit of doubt in the way – in other words, unless they have faith. So ye of little faith wanting to move Fuji to Australia: if you yourself don’t believe it's possible, why would anyone else want to prove it could be for you?
mdawson17, I’d recommend that if you feel you’re lying to your visitors, either crank up your faith, or replace your sign with one that says, “When we achieve enough faith, it removes even the obstacles we can see.”yeah, I see what you are saying about faith removing doubt, though I would say it begins with doubt and becomes the will. Eh, I dunno for sure but I like what you wrote.
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